* Apparently, as Silodrome excerpted from Randy Leffingwell’s recent book on Corvettes, the producers of the Batman TV series asked GM to propose a design for a Batmobile. It looks like GM took the assignment super serious. (via)

UPDATE (28.February 2013): Or maybe not. See the comments below.

* What do you drive if you’re the president of Henney? A giant 12-passenger Packard-based station wagon, as we see from this Modern Mechanix scan of an article from the March 1954 issue of Popular Science. This thing’s gotta be around somewhere.

* David Greenlees at The Old Motor found this custom-bodied Ford Model T apparently designed by a cubist.

* And finally, in the comments to last week’s Four-Links, which was chock full of VW Type 2s and round-the-world road-trippers, Bill pointed out the 3.5-year ongoing road trip of one family in a 1971 Volkswagen at BodesWell.org.

The Corvette picture looks like an April fool’s day joke since it’s all paper, carboard and tape. The bat on the front of the car has a heart with someone’s picture drawn on it, is it Chuck Jordan in his early days? Or perhaps an homage to Bunkie?
Love that Packard wagon, if it still exists it would be hard to miss.
The T is very interesting. It follows design trends of the era, or perhaps the owner wanted something that resembled an armoured car. It’s better looking from the front and appears to have been lowered a bit. It shows that even back then people were making faux luxury cars.

Really awesome combination today, Daniel!
The producers chose well when they went with Barris’s creation… That Packard looks way too good for such a huge stretch! The greenhouse is designed really well and the extra length is handled deftly. I hope it’s still around! The Model T looks almost Voisin-like in its flat panels and hard angles. The VW family trip blog is great. Bookmarked it to keep up with them. Thanks!